There a lot of natural diversity in New Mexico, but some of its most unique flora and fauna are under threat of extinction.

The animal’s tentacles are “rounded ... hit the water north of the Yucatán Peninsula in eastern Mexico. They identified 27 species, but two looked like none they had seen before.

Mexico is home to a large number of endemic species and the axolotl is one of them. “The axolotl is an animal that is physically impressive, those huge gills that have to be used to breathe ...